OBITUARY -- Dr. Robert E. Jenkins

Published 4:00 am, Friday, February 6, 1998

Dr. Robert E. Jenkins, the former superintendent of schools in San Francisco and Pasadena, whose career in education spanned more than half a century, died at his home in Mission Viejo on January 15 of heart failure. He was 86.

After the war he settled in San Diego, where he became assistant superintendent in charge of instruction from 1947 to 1952. In 1953 he returned east to become superintendent of schools in Ridgewood, N.J., a post he held until 1958 when he became the schools' superintendent of Pasadena. In 1967 he assumed the same post in San Francisco.

Retiring from his San Francisco position in 1970, Dr. Jenkins became founding president of the statewide Sullivan Pre-School Centers. He later joined the faculty at California State University in Fullerton, where he was Professor of Educational Administration until 1979.